SRI RAM SWARUP Vande Matram Translation

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SRI RAM SWARUP - A FEARLESS

INTELLECTUAL SEER OF MODERN

HINDU INDIA

V SUNDARAM I.A.S

Sri Ram Swarup(1920-1998)

Sri Ram Swarup (1920-1998) is perhaps the greatest Hindu intellectual ofpost-independent India. His most outstanding disciple was Sita Ram Goel,an 'Intellectual Kshatriya'. Theintellectual and emotional relationshipthat existed between them for more than five decades is a glorious chapter

in the history of Hindu revival after 1947. The intellectual relationshipbetween these two great men was similar to the spiritual relationshipbetween Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda in thelatter half of the 19th century and the Hindutva relationship between DrHedgewar and Sri Guruji Golwalkar in the 2nd quarter of the 20thcentury. Sita Ram Goel often used to acknowledge the fact that he cameback to the fold of Hinduism from the concentration camp of

communism only on account of the spiritual influence ofSri Ram Swarup.
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Sita Ram Goel (Sishya) with Sri Ram Swarup (Guru) on the right

Sri Ram Swarup was firmly of the view that the foremost task of anintellectual lay in his effort to break down the stereo-types and reductivecategories which have a limiting and choking impact upon human thought

and communication. As early as in 1949, in his book 'LET US FIGHT THECOMMUNIST MENACE',he challenged the orthodox communist partyview that every intellectual must be a man or woman of the Left.After the II World War, all the worldly powers in all areas of life effectively

co-opted the intelligentsia to an extraordinary and unprecedented degree.The results were disastrous. As Wilfred Owen puts it poetically:

'The scribes on all the people shoveAnd bawl allegiance to the State'.

Against this contemporary situation of intellectual serfdom, Sri RamSwarup in the India of1949 functioned as a 'One Man Brigade' againstcommunism in India and the Indian State which was getting into the viciousgrip of Russian brand of communism under Stalin. Sri Ram Swarup feltthat it was his principal intellectual duty to make an earnest search for

relative independence from such pressures pointed out by Wilfred Owen.As a powerful political writer against communism, he tried to speak the truth

to power.

Sri Ram Swarup was born on October 12, 1920 in Sonipat in Haryana.His father was a private banker. Sri Ram Swarup (formerly Sri RamSwarup Garg, his Gotra name and belonging to the Agrawal caste) took hisdegree in economics from Delhi University in 1941. Like others of hisgeneration he too joined the Gandhian Movement during the Quit IndiaAgitation of 1942. He acted as the over-ground contact (Post box) for the
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Sri Ram Swarup'sfirst two books, 'Let us Fight the CommunistMenace' (1949) and 'Russian Imperialism: How to Stop it?'(1950) were published by Prachi Prakasham, ananti-communistpublishing house founded by Sri Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel inCalcuttawhich was then the Mecca of Indian Communism. This

publishing house was part of their 'Society for the Defence of Freedomin Asia' (SDFA) about which I shall explain in greater detail below. Thegreat benefactor who came to the rescue ofBharath Mata at that time byway of financial assistance for this great national cause was Hari PrasadLohia. These two books attracted attention in high places. SardarVallabhai Patel, Union Home Minister, took a decision to establishthe 'Democratic Research Service' (DRS), a think tank specificallydevoted to monitoring communism, which was formally launched inNovember 1950. It was sponsored by the family of G.D. Birla and wasinitially led by Morarji Desai, who later passed on the responsibilityto Minoo Masani. It was as Secretary of the DRSthat Sri RamSwarup prepared a 'History of the Communist Party of India' whichwas later published by Minoo Masani in his own name. On account ofstrong differences with Minoo Masani, Sri Ram Swarup resigned fromthe DRS to re-join Sita Ram Goel in Calcutta. Sri Ram Swarup and SitaRam Goel together, established the 'Society for the Defence of Freedomin Asia' (SDFA) in 1950.

In his landmark work called 'Decolonising the Hindu Mind' (2001),Dr. Koenraad Elst writes emphatically: The most authentic andeffective Indian centre of fact-finding and consciousness-raising

about the communist menace in Asia was undoubtedly the Societyfor the Defence of Freedom in Asia (SDFA).It published someimportant studies, which were acclaimed by leading anti-communists in theWest and Taiwan, and on one occasion violently denounced in thePravda and the Izvestia. Until its closing in December 1955, theCentre was the main independent focus of ideological opposition tocommunism in the third world.

Sri Ram Swarup's main books on communism are: 'Let us Fight theCommunist Menace' (1949); 'Russian Imperialism: How to Stop It?'(1950); 'Communism and Peasantry: Implications of CollectivistAgriculture for Asian Countries' (1954); 'Gandhism and Communism'(1954); and 'Foundations of Maoism' (1956). In his 'Gandhism andCommunism'Sri Ram Swarup stressed the need to raise the struggleagainst communism from a military to a moral and ideological level. This

book was taken to the attention of Western anti-communists including someCongressmen in U.S.A. Some core ideas of Sri Ram Swarup were


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adopted by the Eisenhower administration in its agenda for theGeneva Conference in 1955.

Arun Shourie who had the good fortune of being a good friend ofSri RamSwarup wrote this about his struggle against communism: Sri Ram

Swarup now in his seventies, is a scholar of the front rank. In the1950s when our intellectuals were singing paeans to Marxism and toMao in particular, Sri Ram Swarup wrote critics of communism andof the actual that is dismal performance of communistGovernments. He showed that the 'sacrifices' which the people were beingcompelled to make had nothing to do with building a new society in which atsome future date they would be heirs to milk and honey. He showed that the

claims to efficiency and productivity, to equitable distribution and to highmorale which were being made by these communist Governments in Russia

and China, were wholly unsustainable, that in fact they werefabrication. Today, anyone reading Sri Ram Swarup's critiques wouldcharacterise them as prophetic. But thirty years ago, so noxious wasthe intellectual climate in India that all he got was abuse andostracism.

In every society we have a handful of unusual persons with an unusualsensitivity to the sacred and an uncommon reflective-ness about the natureof their universe, and the rules which govern their society. Sri RamSwarup was a rare intellectual who asserted his right to have his own spaceto walk around, the space in which to stand and talk back to authority. In allhis writings he declared that an unquestioning subservience to authority in

today's world is one of the greatest threats to an active, and moral,intellectual life. Sri Ram Swarup had the rare gift of exposition whichturns popularization into an art. All his life he spoke up for the freemind which is the glory and torment of the modern world.

Sri Ram Swarup, as a fearless intellectual, did not feel powerless in theface of an overwhelmingly powerful network of social authorities, the

communist mafia of mass media, the government and business corporations,

etc which were competing with one another in crowding out the possibilitiesfor achieving any decent change in post-independent India.

Sri Ram Swarup openly came out against the disgraceful publicperformance ofNehruvian intellectuals marked by strategic pre-meditated trimming, careful silence, patriotic bluff and bluster and above alla self-dramatising and retrospective apostasy.

In his approach to public affairs, Sri Ram Swarup often found exhilarationin danger and relished nothing better than a controversy. His was the spirit


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in opposition, rather than in accommodation. He was firmly of the view that

the romance, the interest, the challenge of intellectual life was to be found indissent against the status quo in India immediately after 1947 when the

struggle on behalf of the under-represented and disadvantaged groupsseemed so unfairly weighted against them.

As a young intellectual, Sri Ram Swarup had the integrity and moralcourage to proclaim that standards of truth about human misery and

oppression should be upheld by fearless intellectuals regardless of theirparty affiliation, regional background and primeval loyalties.

Edward W Said, an internationally known literary critic, beautifullydescribes the predicament of a committed and ardent intellectual in this

context: Witnessing a sorry state of affairs when one is not in poweris by no means a monotonous, monochromatic activity. It involves

what Foucault once called 'a relentless erudition', scouringalternative sources, exhuming buried documents, reviving forgotten

(or abandoned) histories. It involves a sense of the dramatic and of

the insurgent, making a great deal of one's opportunities to speak,catching the audience's attention, being better at wit and debate

than one's opponents. And there is something fundamentallyunsettling about intellectuals who have neither offices to protect norterritory to consolidate and guard, self-irony is therefore morefrequent than pomposity, directness more than hemming or hawing.

But there is no dodging the inescapable reality that suchrepresentations by intellectuals will neither make them friends in

high places nor win them official honours. It is a lonely condition,yes, but it is always a better one than a gregarious tolerance for the

way things are.

Sri Ram Swarup, through his life and writings as a fearless fighter for greatpublic causes, gave a cubic content to the above words ofEdward Said. Allhis life he stood upright and talked back to authority. He wasdisgusted by the unquestioning subservience to authority in theIndia of his time and viewed it as the greatest of threats to anactive, and moral, intellectual life. He often told his friends that thehardest aspect of being an intellectual is to represent what youprofess through your work and interventions, without hardening intoan institution or a kind of automaton acting at the behest of asystem or method.

When he and Sita Ram Goel were fighting together against the menace ofcommunism in India after 1949, Sri Ram Swarup viewed Gandhism as analternative to communism. In a pamphlet written after the assassination of


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Gandhiji ' Mahatma Gandhi and his Assassin ' (1948), he expressed the view

that martyrdom was only befitting a man of Gandhiji's elemental greatness.

After waging a relentless intellectual battle against communism and

serfdom, Sri Ram Swarupturned to religious and philosophical issues after

1957. Apart from contributing a large number of seminal articles onHinduism, Islam and Christianity from several points of view to importantnewspapers like TheTimes of India, The Indian Express, The Observerand Hindustan Times, he also wrote a series of important books oncomparative religion and philosophy. Some of his main works

are: Buddhism vis-a-vis Hinduism (1958), The Hindu View ofEducation (1971), The Word as Revelation: Names of Gods (1980),Hinduism vis-a-vis Christianity and Islam (1982), Christianity, AnImperialist Ideology (1983), Understanding Islam Through Hadis(1983), Hindu-Sikh Relationship (1985), Ramakrishna Mission inSearch of a New Identity (1986), Cultural Alienation and SomeProblems Hinduism Faces (1987), Hindu View of Christianity andIslam (1992), Woman in Islam (1994), On Hinduism: Reviews andReflections (published posthumously in 1999), and Meditations:Gods, Religions (published posthumously in 2000).

Sri Ram Swarup was an unassuming, quiet and reflective type of person.He never sought a job; he never got married and he never did any businessfor commercial profit. After a life of strenuous and unremitting intellectual

labour, Sri Ram Swarup passed away peacefully during an afternoon napon 26 December 1998 leaving to the world a splendid example of lonely

and disinterested pursuit of truth and light.

When Sri Ram Swarup's Hindu View of Christianity and Islam waspublished in 1992, Syed Sahabuddin, a Janata Dal Member of Parliamentwrote a letter on 20 August 1993 to his co-religionist, the Union Ministerof State for Home Affairs (Late) P M Syeed, asking theGovernment ofIndia to have the book examined from the point of view of banning it underthe law of the land. SYED SAHABUDDIN'S VILE ATTEMPT TO GET SRIRAM SWARUP'S BOOK HINDU VIEW OF CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAMBANNED BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN 1993 FAILED MISERABLY.

An instantaneous reaction from Arun Shourie fully exposed the unfoundedprejudice ofSyed Sahabuddin in the whole affair and a statement made bya group of intellectuals, under the leadership ofK S Lal againstSyed Sahabuddin's proposal to impose a ban on that book also had thedesired impact.


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In their statement on that occasion these intellectuals declared as

follows: We strongly condemn all recent attempts in India andabroad to prevent free enquiry into the history and the doctrines of

various religions. In particular we condemn the attempt by SyedSahabuddin to make the Indian authorities impose a ban on the book

Hindu View of Christianity and Islam by Sri Ram Swarup publishedby Voice of India, New Delhi in 1992. This book is one of the first

serious comparative studies of religion written from the Hinduviewpoint; banning it would be a direct attack on the right of Hindusociety to develop an intellectual response to ideologicalchallenges.

Sri Ram Swarup was a crusader for ' Sanathana Dharma ', Hindu culture,Hindu civilisation, Hindu society, Hinduism as a whole and above all for

things, issues and ideals Hindu in character. He wrote in his Hindu View ofChristianity and Islam: If religious tolerance is a value, Christianity as

well as Islam lacks it badly. Wherever they have gone, they have

carried fire and sword and oppressed and destroyed as far as it layin their power. They demolished and occupied the temples and

shrines of others. Any tolerance shown was an exception,intolerance was the rule.SRI RAM SWARUP CLEARLY CONCLUDEDTHAT THE DESTRUCTIVE RECORD OF ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITYTHROUGH THE AGES HAS BEEN OUTDONE ONLY BY COMMUNISM.

LIKEWISE, SRI RAM SWARUP REJECTED THE PHILOSOPHY OF 'SARVADHARMA SAMBHAVA' OFMAHATMA GANDHION THE GROUND THAT

THE TOLERANT POLYTHEISTIC HINDUISM CAN NEVER BE EQUATEDWITH BRUTAL MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS LIKE ISLAM ANDCHRISTIANITY.

Under the 'Islam-embracing, Christianity-coveting, Hindu-hating, caste-

Quota-loving' UPA government in New Delhi, Hinduism has become adirty word and Hindus are being made to disown their identities. Smalleridentities and narrower loyalties, once an integral part of a larger Hindu

milieu, are being mischievously thrown to the forefront by planned anti-social and anti-national policies. Castes and creeds are becoming more

prominent at the highest levels of governance. Such dangerous forces haveacquired their own momentum, power, justification and vested interests.

Their game is obvious; it is to confuse the nation's counsel, to weaken itswill, to create a soft society so that its parts can be picked up one by oneand the nation dismembered and destroyed to the total pseudo-secularsatisfaction of all tall leaders in New Delhi! This seems to be the only

po0litical agenda of the anti-Hindu and anti-National Sonia Congress Partyand the UPA Government today.


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In this terrible and desolate context for Hinduism and the Hindus of India

today, I have to refer to 4 brilliant articles written by Sri RamSwarup in August 1979. The titles of these 4 thought provokingarticles were:

(1) The Politics of Self-Alienation

(2) The Dishonest Secularist

(3) The RSS Bogey

(4) The Embarassing Allies

Janatha Government was in power and Charan Singh was the PrimeMinister of India. Several forces at that time were uniting and conspiring

together against Hinduism and national unity. Sri Ram Swarup had thevision to understand and comment upon the long range implications of theconfiguration of these evil forces. He was the first Political Scientist to point

out as early as in August 1979 that voting in India was being done oncommunal and caste lines which gave Muslims a Balancing Role andwhich in turn made them the wooed community by all kinds of politicalparties, leading to the forging of a Grand Alliance betweenopportunistic, communal and caste-based politicians.

In his foreword, to the above 4 articles, Sri Ram Swarup, observed as

follows: They are not Election Articles though they refer toelections. Rather, they deal with the larger configuration and deepermotivations of Indian politics. Indian thinking today is characterized

by Self-Alienation, which has also given birth to its own brand ofpolitics. This politics rejects the deeper values of the country and its

culture. Its arrogance has prevented it even from comprehendingthose values This politics dresses itself in Left Phraseology. It uses

the Phrases of Secularism and Socialism in order to serve its ownends. It is also from this source that a good deal of anti-RSS

propaganda emanates. RSS-baiting is, at heart, Hindu-baiting. Theslogan is raised by those who would like to use Minorities to foist a

party or dynastic dictatorship over the majority.

Here is another brilliant observation from Sri RamSwarups foreword: There is theculture of SERVICE and alsothepolitics of POWER. The RSS, in so far as it derives its ethos fromHinduism, represents the former, which the latter finds difficult evento appreciate. Hence the misunderstanding about the RSS.


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As Sri Ram Swarup put it in his foreword: I offer these articles in thehope of promoting a larger discussion, particularly amongst thosewho love their country and culture. They must know the nature of

the danger the country is facing and the unholy alliance its enemies

are forging.What Sonia Gandhi and Karunanidhi have achievedtogether in theTELECOM SPECTRUM SCAM using the convenient handle oftheir page boys like Dr Manmohan Singh and A. Raja --- I am referring tothe combined Himalayan Corruption of thisCRIMINAL coterie --- wasclearly foreseen by Sri Ram Swarup in these articles.

In his article titled The Politics of Self Alienation, Sri RamSwarup stated that in many Hindu intellectuals and politicians, the hatredof the religion in which they were born has acquired neurotic andeven lunatic proportions. In others it is more self-controlled, moreprudently expressed and more profitably directed --- it is expressedwith an eye to Muslim and Christian votes. Similarly, in some it isexpressed emotionally; in others it takes on a more intellectual look.In Communists, the madness becomes a method and acquires along-range aim; it becomes their necessary ideological prop whichsupports their aim of capturing power. They distrust all those whohave roots, who have self-esteem, who have any structure of beliefs,any rallying point. They know that people who are ideologically andorganizationally cohesive are not an easy prey to their ambitions.Therefore the people must be ideologically disarmed, their culturesubverted, they must lose their self-respect, their organic leadership

and their identity; they must be atomized, their internal differencesfanned so that they can be easily picked up.

The Self-Alienation of Indians in general and Hindus in particular was animportant component of the intellectual ferment of the British days though it

was kept in check by the pervading influence of Gandhiji. But after thepassing away of Gandhiji on 30-January-1948, the old deathly disease

ofSelf-Alienation again came into the forefront and showed itself in all itspower and ramifications. Its most undisguised incarnation is in the elitist andLeftist politics of the day. The elites --- Nehruvian Congress pseudo-

secularists and the Communists --- are enamoured of the West and theyseek solutions of all the countrys problems in imported models. They would

like to cast the country in the image of the West. Sri Ram Swarup attackedthis approach in a powerful language charged with elemental power: Theyfail to see that this is a sterile path in more than one sense and justby reproducing the West in ourselves, we also make no contribution

to the pool of the world-good. Nehru was such a model as PrimeMinister; so was Indira Gandhi; so was Rajiv Gandhi; and so is Dr


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Manmohan Singh today. Dr Manmohan Singhs live, living, life-giving, life-

enhancing Western models in this sense are Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi andall the members of the Nehru-Gandhi Congress Dynasty. Our listless,lustureless, lifeless, directionless and national visionless Prime Minister DrManmohan Singh has several times declared from the housetop: Sonia

Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi are my live models (perhaps like thehistoric wax models created by Madame Tussaud!!!). Theirmeaningful (mendacious and machinating and self-promoting)mission is my mission; their self-less benighted Be-Cause is my Be-cause; and their transcendental (treacherous) vision is my vision.

What is happening in this Sonia-Congress organized and SoniaGandhi-manipulated Dark Age in which India and her helplessmillions find themselves in a disastrous rut today, was clearlyforeseen by Sri Ram Swarup as early as in 1979. Smt IndiraGandhi,the greatest political criminalwho adorned the highest seat ofpower in post-Independent India, was the originator of this malignant

disease ofPolitics of Self-Alienation so eloquently described by Sri RamSwarup above. Smt Indira Gandhi, besotted victim and wife of LoveJihadi Feroze KHAN (name changed to Gandhilater),succeeded inshattering the identity and morale of Hindus and Hindu society inIndia. By sowing and promoting the virus of Self-Alienation amongstthe Indians in general and Hindus in particular by using the might ofthe state, she succeeded in poisoning the roots of the ancient Hinduculture.

I am referring to the 42nd Amendment that Smt Indira Gandhibrought into the Indian Constitution, by mischievously using thedark cover of Emergency,in 1976 by declaring India to be aSecularState. The main aim of this Amendment was to use the helpless andunorganized Hindu millions as disposable fodder on the state organized bon-fire programme (in final effect deliberately planned for the welfare of

Muslims and Christians only and viciously intended as a pogrom for

the Hindus as a whole) ofMinority Rights CONCEIVED ONLY FORPURPOSES OF MINORITY VOTE BANK POLITICS.

If our totally impotent, inefficient, lethargic, phlegmatic, corrupt andstupidly smiling Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is able to declare,with authoritarian shamelessness on stilts, that Muslims of India will

have the first charge on our National Resources, it is only because ofthe fact that dastardly anti-Hindu Smt Indira Gandhi created the anti-Hindu virus--- I am referring to the Secularism Missileaimed at theHindu throats --- by amendingthe Constitution in 1976. I am callingtodays surrogatePrime Minister Dr Manmohan Singhcorrupt only


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because he allows the Himalayan corruption of Union Communications

Minister Spectacular Spectrum Raja to continue unchecked, unhinderedand unquestioned by any enforcement authority under his control. If Rajacommits the mega-crime, the surrogate Prime Minister abets itthrough his masterly inactivity and cold calculated silence!!! The

levers of his, perhaps, involuntary responses and actions are controlled bythe well-knownItalian Mafia operating from No: 10, Janpath in NewDelhi.

Sri Ram Swarup was a great visionary. After pointing out all the perils andthe dangers that were encircling Hinduism and Hindus of India, he concludedas follows in his article The Politics of Self-Alienation: Hinduism hasthe necessary depth, catholicity, dynamism to assimilate all that isgood and true. IT HAS ALSO A GOOD DEAL WHICH IS ALWAYS TRUE,WHICH IS NOT EASILY FOUND ELSEWHERE AND OF WHICH WESHOULD BE PROUD AND WHICH WE SHOULD CULTIVATE.

Having touched upon Sri Ram Swarups article on The Politics of Self-Alienation, let me now turn to his article titled The DishonestSecularist. In this seminal and prophetic article, Sri Ram Swarup made afrontal attack on the Minority Politics ofState-Organized Secularism. Iam giving a few excerpts from this article.

1. Today secularism has become a profitable business. It hasattracted all kinds of shady characters. Even more than patriotism, it

has become the first and last refuge of the scoundrels of all

descriptions. Ambitious politicians use it for vote-catching;communal (Communists included, words within these bracketsmine) intellectuals use it for giving themselves a progressive image;

aggressive minorities use it for self-aggrandizement.

2. The slogan of secularism has been so often cynically repeated

that it has become hackneyed, and trite. People have become to feelthat the minorities are being pampered, that they are hard to please,that they are getting unreasonable and even impossible.

3. Secularism is not merely an agnostic or metaphysical idea or

even a generous social impulse; it is a hard-nosed election politics; itis a bid for Muslim and Christian votes. Hindu-Muslim unity is adesirable thing but it does not suit that breed of politicians who

prosper on division. Divide and Rule was no invention of the British;it is an indispensable policy of all who want to perpetuate a party or

dynastic rule. The rules of the game do not change simply becausethe British have left. These have been adopted by the BROWN ELITE


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they have left behind. They have vested interest in keeping people

divided and perpetuating their differences.

4. In his book My eleven years with Fakhrudin Ali Ahmed, Mr. Fazle

Ahmed Rehmaney provides an interesting case which throws great

light on the psychology of secularism. During the Emergency days,when the members of the Jamat-e-Islami were put in the same jailas the members of RSS, the former began to discover that the latter

were no monsters as the latter were made to believe by nationalistpropaganda; therefore they began to think better of their Hindu

brothers. This sent alarm into the hearts of secularists andnationalists. Maulavis belonging to the Jamat-e-Islami-e-Hind met

the President (Fakhrudin Ali Ahmed) and reported to him about thegrowing rapport between the leaders of the two communities. This

stunned President Fakhrudin Ali Ahmed and he said that thiscarried ominous future for Congressite Muslim leaders. He also

promised thathe would speak to Indiraji about this dangerous

development and ensure that the Muslims remain Muslims. (SoniaGandhi and Ahmed Patelare playing the same sinister game ofDivide

and Rule Anti-Hindu Secularism today.)

5. THERE IS A VESTED INTEREST OF MUSLIMS RETAINING THEIRHINDU PHOBIA OF THE HINDUS. THIS PHOBIA IS A VERITABLECORNUCOPIA OF VOTES FOR WHICH THE OPPORTUNIST ELEMENTS

ARE COMPETING. IT IS UNFORTUNATE THAT THE MUSLIMCOMMUNITY HAS THROWN UP NO WORTHWHILE LEADERSHIP

WHICH IS INTERESTED INT EH LARGER QUESTION OF HINDU-MUSLIM AMITY; ON THE OTHERHAND, IT HAS BEEN IN THE GRIP OF

A LEADERSHIP THAT HAS BEEN WORKING MERELY AS THE ELECTIONAGENT OF THE RULING CLIQUE IN THE CONGRESS POLITICS.

6. The Hindu society is divided into castes. It thinks in terms ofcastes, it votes in terms of castes. Hindus do not vote for Hindu

candidates; they vote for caste candidates. So, if one belongs to the

right caste or can manipulate the caste factor successfully and alsomanage the minority votes on anti-Hindu slogan one is bound to

succeed. Thus while the Hindu society is divided, Muslims vote en-bloc. This gives them disproportionate representation on Indian

Politics.

HINDU CASTE BASED ORGANIZATIONS in British India were allessentially Hindu organizations rooted in Sanatana Dharma andbeing very proud of their Hindu identity and heritage. In the dirtycommunal anti-Hindu electoral politics of today, the caste-based


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organizations and political parties are trying to wean away peoplefrom their primordial Hindu roots. More particularly in Tamil Naduand Kerala this seems to be the most serious political maladyafflicting these two states.

The classic instance of communal anti-Hindu politics relates to theNAIR SERVICE SOCIETY (NSS) in Kerala today. The grim tragedy isthat the NSS is functioning like a subordinate office of the ChristianChurch In Kerala. The NSS is trying to reduce Nairs, the erstwhilewarrior-defenders of Sanatana Dharma in Kerala, to a bunch ofpompous vainglorious casteists having simultaneously, superioritycomplex towards other Hindu castes on the one hand and inferioritycomplex towards Christians and Muslims on the other. No NairKarayogam (a unit of the Nair caste organizations), whether insideKerala or outside, is known to start their meeting with thetraditional Hindu invocations of Guru-Vandana and Vinayaka Stuti.The Nair Karayogams have been infiltrated, consciously anddeliberately, by Communist paratroopers who are trying to weanaway the Nair member-families from their Hindu roots under theguise of the debilitating and pernicious virus of SECULARISMconsciously and continuously marketed by the Sonia Congress Partyand the Communist Parties in Kerala. The Communist moles insidethe caste-based organizations try their best to sabotage and preventHindu Unity and Hindu solidarity resting on caste consolidation. Thecase in point is the 156th Sri Chattambi Swami Jayanthi Celebrationsat the Panmana Ashram in September 2009. The Ashram authorities

had invited the widely respected Hindu Dharmacharini MataAmritnandamayi for the Jayanthi Celebrations. Many of the membersof the NSS could not tolerate a Hindu Dharmacharini like MataAmritnandamayi who belongs to lower caste being invited and givenprominence in the Jayanthi Celebrations. Finding themselves in thehopeless situation, from their divisive and narrow-minded casteistpoint of view, the Communist moles in the NSS of Kerala in generaland its GENERAL SECRETARY Shri P K NARAYANA PANICKER, wentinto a depressed state sulking and they deliberately disassociatedthemselves from the Sri Chattambi Swami Jayanthi Celebrations.This, despite the known fact that Chattambi Swamigal was a greatHindu Rishi and Social reformer who fought against social evils ofcasteism and religious conversion.

The General Secretary of the NSS P K Narayana Panicker showedsupreme contempt for the essential and enduring Hindu cultural,social and spiritual message of SRI CHATTAMBI SWAMIKAL on theauspicious occasion of his 156th Jayanthi Celebrations at the


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PANMANA ASHRAM. In my view Sri P K NARAYANA PANICKERbehaved like a jihadi Muslim towards a great Hindu saint, sage andseer like Hindu Dharmacharini Mata Amritnandamayi.

7. Today, in India, there is no minority problem; there is a

majority problem. This situation will continue as long as politicalparties find that they can spite the majority with impunity and getthe minority votes into the bargain. But if they knew that their brand

of politics also lost them at least as many votes of one community asit won them of other, they would be more circumspect.

8.But for Modern Secularists, Muslim or Christian communalism issacred and patriotic. They have made common cause with this; they

walk hand-in-hand with this. This Current Secular slogan is nothingbut another name for Hindu-baiting. IT SPECIALIZES IN USING THE

MUSLIM STICKS FOR BEATING THE HINDUS.

The third article ofSri Ram Swarup titled THE RSS BOGEY is as hardhitting as the earlier 2 articles dealt with above. IT WAS NEHRU WHOSTARTED THE RSS BAITING AFTER AUGUST 15, 1947. IT REACHEDITS VIRULENT CLIMAX AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF MAHATMAGANDHI ON JANUARY 30 1948. THE RSS WAS BANNED AND GURUJIGOLWALKAR, THE RSS CHIEF WAS IMPRISONED WITHOUT ANYTRIAL. Having wailed eloquently in his autobiography against the denial ofcivil liberties during the British Raj, Pundit Nehru and his government

shamelessly denied civil liberties to Guruji Golwalkar and the RSS

Swayamsevaks for a period of more than 18 months after January 30,1948. The might of the Indian State was let loose by Nehru against GurujiGolwalkar and the RSS.Guruji Golwalkar effectively demonstratedthat his immortal soul-force was more powerful than the mortaltemporal force of the state displayed by Pundit Nehru. When Indira

Gandhi introduced the Emergency in 1975, very much like Nehru in 1948,she again imposed a ban on the RSS and imprisoned thousands ofits Swayamsevaks without any trial. The common people of India, underthe leadership ofJayaprakash Narain rose in revolt and threw out IndiraGandhi and her Congress Party in the 1977 General Elections.

Taking note of all this background, Sri Ram Swarup wrote as follows on 25August 1979: It should be obvious to anybody that the most vicious

anti-RSS propaganda is at heart anti-Hindu propaganda. So long asthe RSS is identified with Hinduism in one form or another, it wouldinvite this attack. It cannot hope to convince or please the enemiesof Hinduism, except by repudiating this identification and denying itsinspiration. In this repudiation, it will also lose its own raison


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detre. The RSS will have to overcome the forces of self-denigration, self-alienation and even self-destruction deliberately let loose by Sonia Gandhiand her cohorts in the Congress Party and the other Islamist and casteist

political parties.

The attack on the RSS is dishonest, interested, motivated,sustained, vicious and virulent. It is spearheaded by those who havea deep animus against Hinduism especially that give it cohesiveness,

identity, the will and the strength to survive. Resist and fight back.Those who want Hinduism to have no backbone and who want to

disarm it ideologically are opposed to the work of the RSS.This kindof pan-Hindu organization working for bringing social cohesion and religious

and political consolidation in the Hindu society does not suit the designs ofthe enemies of Hindu society.

In the same article Sri Ram Swarup also declared But while theenemies of the RSS have worked themselves up to a frenzied point

and have whipped up their tirade, the propaganda itself is losing its

appeal with the thinking people. They now know that it is emanatingfrom demented minds, from professional Hindu-baiters, from corrupt

and opportunist politicians, from agents of foreign powers, fromthose who are interested in the dismemberment of the country, frominveterate communalists putting on the mask of a progressivephraseology.

Renascent Hinduism will have to contend with the forces that are working

round the clock for the destruction of Sanatana Dharma, the Hindu societyand Hindu culture. The chief enemy of Sanatana Dharma today is the ItalianCatholic woman imposter Sonia Gandhi and her chattels in the Congress

Party --- Islamic political marauders like Ahmed Patel, A.R Antulay andChristian mercenaries like A.K. Anthony, Oomen Chandy, Oscar Fernandez,

Ambika Soni --- and they are all working in concert to convert India into anon-Hindu nation of Islam and Christianity.

I would like to pay my tribute to Sri Ram Swarup by quoting his wordswhich give a clear and clairvoyant message to all of us: Those who are

against India are even more opposed to Hinduism, a name andnomenclature for India at its deepest and most cultural andspiritual; Hinduism embodies India's civilizational dimension and

gives it cohesion, integrity, continuity and unity. They know thatbefore they can subvert India, they must subvert Hinduism, that the

country's Balkanisation is not possible without prior fragmentationof the Hindu society. Hence, the tenacious attack on Hinduism, their

need to unleash divisive caste politics.


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The world of scholarship is permanently indebted to my reveredGuru Shri Jyothirmayananda Swamiji for making available to the worldthe 4 original unpublished articles ofShri Ram Swarup referred to above.If only he had not taken care to preserve those articles which were

personally handed over to him by Shri Ram Swarup in 1979, they wouldhave been lost for ever.

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Monday, May 3, 2010

Paintings of Vande Mataram donein 1923

V.SUNDARAM

A public meeting was organized on 10 September 2006 by the Rajaji Centre for PublicAffairs in Royapettah, Chennaito commemorate the centenary of the singing ofthe Vande Mataram song at a Special Session of the Indian National Congress atBenaras on 7 September 1905. I had the privilege of addressing this meeting.

Immediately after the meeting, my esteemed friend Dr Parthasarathy, son ofShri Shri

Acharya (Mandayam Srinivasachariar), gave me a book titled BandemataramAlbumpublished in Cawnpore (Kanpur) in 1923 by Shiva Narayan Mishra Vaidya ofPrakash Pustakalaya. This book contains rare and beautiful paintingsby K.TEJENDRA KUMAR MITRA illustrating some of the gloriously symbolicSanskrit words in the Vande Mataram song. I view it as a great privilege topresent some of the pages from this rare book with the text and the paintings onthe immortal VANDE MATARAM song.
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Shri Aurtobindo Ghosh (1872-1950)

This extremely rare and out of print book contains the full English Translation ofBandemataram song by Shri. Aurobindo. I am presenting below the text ofimmortal Vande Mataram song in SANSKRIT, immediately followed by the Englishtranslation of that text by Shri.Aurobindo.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATIONMother, I salute thee!Rich with thy hurrying streams,bright with orchard gleams,Cool with thy winds of delight,Green fields waving Mother of might,Mother free.Glory of moonlight dreams,Over thy branches and lordly streams,Clad in thy blossoming trees,Mother, giver of easeLaughing low and sweet!Mother I kiss thy feet,Speaker sweet and low!Mother, to thee I bow.Who hath said thou art weak in thy landsWhen swords flash out in seventy million handsAnd seventy million voices roarThy dreadful name from shore to shore?With many strengths who art mighty and stored,To thee I call Mother and Lord!Thou who saves, arise and save!To her I cry who ever her foe droveBack from plain and seaAnd shook herself free.Thou art wisdom, thou art law,

Thou art heart, our soul, our breathThough art love divine, the aweIn our hearts that conquers death.Thine the strength that nerves the arm,Thine the beauty, thine the charm.Every image made divineIn our temples is but thine.


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Thou art Durga, Lady and Queen,With her hands that strike and herswords of sheen,Thou art Lakshmi lotus-throned,And the Muse a hundred-toned,Pure and perfect without peer,Mother lend thine ear,Rich with thy hurrying streams,Bright with thy orchard gleems,Dark of hue O candid-fairIn thy soul, with jewelled hairAnd thy glorious smile divine,Loveliest of all earthly lands,Showering wealth from well-stored hands!Mother, mother mine!Mother sweet, I bow to thee,Mother great and free!

Cover page of the book of 1923.
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First page of Vande Mataram

Published in CAWNPORE in 1923A truly magnificent tribute was paid by Shri.Aurobindo to Shri.Bankim ChandraChaterjee in the following words: "When posterity comes to crown with her praisesfor the Makers of India, she will place her most splendid laurel not on thesweating temples of a place-hunting politician, not on the narrow forehead of anoisy social reformer, but on the serene brow of that gracious Bengali Shri.BankimChandra Chatterjee, who never clamoured for place or power, but did his work insilence for love of his work, even as nature does, and just because he had no aimbut to give out the best that was in him, was able to CREATE A LANGUAGE, ALITERATURE AND A NATION".
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This is the front cover page of a nationalistic journal called Vijaya

which was shifted from Chennai to Pondicherry in 1909. This cover pageappeared in the August 1909 Issue of this Journal.

MANDAYAM SRINIVASACHARIAR AND; S.THIRUMALAIACHARIARMandayam Srinivasachariar and his brother S Thirumalachariar were pillars ofsupport toMahakavi Bharathi during his exile in Pondicherry from 1908 to1918. A Tamil Journalcalled 'Vijaya' was started by S Thirumalachariar on TriplicaneHigh Road Madras in 1907 and later shifted to Pondicherry in 1909. The Cover page ofAugust 1909 issue of VIJAYA from Pondicherry carried the picture of Bharath Mata withthe sacred words ofVande Mataram. This issue ofVijaya has been presented above.
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I am presenting below the marvellous paintings done by SHRI.TEJENDRA KUMAR MITRAto illustrate the lines of Vande Mataram in the Bande Mataram

Albumpublished in Cawnpore in 1923.

Bande Mataram

Hail Mother, I bow to thee!
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SujalamNature supplies thee with all thy wants,

With Sweet Water.
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SuphalamAnd with luscious fruits
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Malayaja Sheetalam

Shashya Shyamalam MataramThou art soothed by balmy breezeEver verdant with green herbage
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Shubra-jyostna-pulakita yamineemThy nights ever resplendent with silver moons
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Phulla-Kusumita-drumadala-shobhineemBedecked thou art in flowery plants
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SuhasineemEver cheerful, ever bright

Sumadhur-bhashineem
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Full of promise and of hope;Mother, thou bestoweth sweet pleasure

and happiness divine

Sapta-koti-Kantta-kalakala-ninada-karaleDwisapta-koti-bhujairdhrit-kharakarabale

Thy cause championed thy thirty crores of souls,Twice thirty crores of arms to defend thee
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Ke-bole-ma-tumi-ableBahubala dharineem

Who says mother thou art feeble?Thou commandest immense strength
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Namami tarineemOur salvation lies in thee;

(Hail mother I bow to thee!)
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Shyamalam saralam Susmitam Bhushitam

Dharaneem Bharaneem MataramEver happy and ever simple

Ever bright and ever beautifulThou our support, our nourishment,

I bow to thee.To quote the brilliant words of my esteemed friend (late)A.Ranganthan; Vande Mataramwas composed even before the AnandaMathwas written. However, it became part of the Ananda Math. Hereit is necessary to stress the similarities between the Indian NationalMovement and the Irish Nationalist Movement. Just as the Irish

Nationalist Movementinspired by great poets like W.B.Yeats had itsbeginnings in the Gaelic Revival, so wasShri.Aurobindos Englishtranslation ofVande Mataram triggered off by Bankim Chandrassong. As Shri Aurobindo put it, it was Bankim Chandras AnandaMath that gave us the reviving mantra of Vande Mataramaglorious mantra which is creating a newIndia.And Shri.Aurobindo developed this point in his own
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Paintining of Bharat-Mata by Shri.Abanindranath Tagore

Shri.Abanindranath Tagore was also anoted writer. He was popularlyknown as 'Aban Thakur'. He was nephew of the poet Shri. RabindranathTagore Shri.Abanindranath Tagores students included Nandalal Bose,

Kalipada Ghoshal, Surendranath Ganguly, Asit Kumar Haldar, SaradaUkil, Kshitindranath Majumdar, Samarendranath Gupta, Mukul Dey,K. Venkatappa, Jamini Roy,and Ranada Ukil.When Sister Nivedita (1867-1911) happened to see the above paintingof BHARAT-MATAdone by Shri.Abanindranath Tagore in 1905, she wasenraptured by it and went into flights of divine ecstasy. She paid thefollowing tribute to Shri. Abanindranath Tagore:"We have here a picture which bids fair to prove the beginning of aNew Age in Indian Art. Using all the added means of expressionwhich the modern period has bestowed upon him, the artist has heregiven expression nevertheless to a purely Indian idea, in Indianform. The curving line of lotuses and the white radiance of the haloare beautiful additions to the Asiatically-conceived figure with itsfour arms, as the symbol of the divine multiplication of power. Thisis the first masterpiece, in which an Indian artist has actuallysucceeded in disengaging, as it where, the spirit of the Motherland
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giver of Faith and Learning, of Clothing and Food,--and portryingHER, as SHE appears to the eyes of HER children. What he sees inHER is here made clear to all of us. Spirit of the Motherland, giver ofall good, yet eternally virgin..The misty lotuses and the white lightset HER apart from the common world, as much as the four arms,

and HER infinite love. And yet in every detail, of Shanka bracelet,and close-veiling garment, of bare feet, and open, sincereexpression, is SHE not after all, our very own, heart of our heart, atonce MOTHER and DAUGHTER of the INDIAN LAND, even as to theRISHIS OF OLD was USHABALA, IN HER Indian girlhood, daughter ofthe DAWN?

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SRI RAM SWARUP Vande Matram Translation